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She had just forwarded Manuel’s wishes when the front doorbell rang She looked at the security ca a tube top and leather ht

Terrific, Vida thought, rolling her eyes Perhaps I’ll get to sleep before two

Vida opened the door The woman who stepped inside was even taller than she looked on the video screen, and very heavily loves before she went through the prostitute’s bag All cell phones and recording devices would be left in the living rooreed-upon procedure was that the sex workers would be blindfolded throughout, so as to hide Manuel’s identity A detail the whores had no proble a tohere discretion was valued almost as much as debauchery

As Vida was frisking the whore, she suddenly stopped and excused herself

“U his bedroom

“Yes, Vida? Has uest arrived?” Perrine said froar as he channel-surfed the seventy-inch flat screen

“It’s about your guest, sir,” Vida said delicately “I … I think she’s an impostor”

“What do you mean? An impostor?”

“They sent a transvestite, Manuel,” she said “I just frisked her, him, whatever She is a definite he”

The cartel king laughed as he shut off the TV He shook his head at Vida affectionately as he stood and squeezed her cheek

“Thank you, Vida,is completely in order,” he said as he spanked her playfully on the ruo blindfold that vision of loveliness and send her in with the chane”

CHAPTER 74

IN THE AFTERMATH OF the horrific attack on Agent Mara, the entire task force began to work fourteen-hour days

We interviewed every witness at the pool where she’d been grabbed that uards, the parents of the other kids We had spoken to her soul-broken husband, who si to his hen there was a loud machine sound and the screen blurred Emily even interviewed her poor little son Ian, as overwrought with grief

But there was nothing We hadn’t even found her stolen truck yet One second, the agent had been watching her kid in the SUV, and the next, the SUV was gone, with only a pile of broken glass in its place